Tag Archives: transportation

If a bridge falls in the Ohio…

September 14, 2009 – 4:36 pm

You have to give it to this city sometimes. Whenever there’s a freak natural disaster (or several), you can at least count on them to be vigorously retroactive in their efforts to haphazardly band-aid any infrastructural hemorrhaging. Be it debris cleanup due to freak flood, errant windstorm or biblical snowfall, you can rest assured that [...]

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Lawson Phone Tapes Stir Controversy, Pedophile Metaphors

June 4, 2009 – 11:55 am

Like most allegedly corrupt individuals whom have had the unfortunate luck in having their conversations recorded, disgraced eastern Kentucky asphalt magnate Leonard Lawson is doing whatever he can to save as much of his ass as can be saved; from the C-J:
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Defense attorneys for road contractor Leonard Lawson argued during a closed [...]

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Citizen Lawson (or, Why More Roads Equals Less)

May 27, 2009 – 10:05 pm

When he was 18, Leonard Lawson worked on a highway project  — his first of many — as an entry-level maintenance worker. It was good, honest work for a boy hailing from Beverly, Kentucky, a hamlet located near the Commonwealth’s poverty-stricken Eastern coal fields; perched on the southwestern cusp of the Cumberland Plateau just east [...]

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Barry the Bicycle Rides Again… Part I

February 12, 2009 – 6:18 pm

With Louisville’s stunted urban renaissance awaiting the green light from the credit market gods, the timing for the region’s second Bike Summit couldn’t have been more appropriate. Held in the gymnasium of the old Male High School, the speaker/discussion-driven symposium gathered some 270 cycling activists, addicts, and enthusiasts, as well as city officials and transportation [...]

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